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CVE-2008-2665

MEDIUM CVSS: 5.0 Published: 2008-06-20 Modified: 2026-06-16

Description

Directory traversal vulnerability in the posix_access function in PHP 5.2.6 and earlier allows remote attackers to bypass safe_mode restrictions via a .. (dot dot) in an http URL, which results in the URL being canonicalized to a local filename after the safe_mode check has successfully run.

Affected Platforms

Php Php

Weakness Type

CWE-22

References